Trends and Outlook for Federal Support for Utilization Research

Authors

  • John R. Erickson

Keywords:

Trends, outlook, federal support, funding, utilization research, forestry, forest products, wood products

Abstract

Wood is extremely important to our economy and well-being, and there is a critical need for the federal government to fund research for forestry in general, including forest products. Newly funded programs in competitive grants and direct funding to universities will probably continue. There will probably not be any substantial increases in the Forest Service utilization research budget in the near future. However, the long-term prospects for funding should be good. Support for utilization research will come from broad-based support for major initiatives such as new opportunities for hardwood utilization and the exciting field of biotechnology.

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Published

2007-06-28

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Research Contributions